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EXPLORATOR
Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World
Volume 3, Issue 10 -- July 9, 2000
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OLD WORLD NEWS
The Toledo Blade makes its reappearance in these epages with a story on the results of assorted tests on a couple of mummies in the Toledo Museum of Art (some careless editing in this one):
CNN has a nice feature on the reopening of the pyramid of Chephren to tourists:
The Hindu has a report on various matters archaeological in India:
I think this is a followup, but it was long ago so here it is again ... a couple of sources are reporting on the beginning of the search for the tomb of Genghis Khan (watch the wrap on the Telegraph piece):
The Art Newspaper has a nice feature on various virtual archaeology projects:
A press release and article in Science Daily deal with excavations associated with the Kuril Island Project:
A couple of items (from the Times and the Art Newspaper) on Italian demands that Britain return an important 12th century manuscript apparently misappropriated during WWII:
NEW WORLD NEWS
From Knoxville Tennessee comes news of an important fossil find (thanks to Donna for the heads up):
An item in the St. Paul Pioneer on 'dissing' the Kensington runestone:
CLASSICISTS' CORNER
The San Francisco Examiner has an interesting piece on the wines of Campania and their connections to the ancient Greeks and Romans:
Slate Magazine has a piece on "How to win a MacArthur" which suggests being a classicist (among other attributes) might not be a bad thing:
A new high school in the Washington area is having problems finding a Latin teacher:
A report on the quarterfinals at Wimbledon reveals a 'classical connection':
A piece in the Chicago Tribune on the Harry Potter mania reveals what sorts of folks are reading it (with some classical content, of course):
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FOLLOWUPS
The Jerusalem Post provides a different perspective on the Temple Mount controversy:
Another report on that crozier discovered in Orkney:
SAGAS
Kennewick Man:
REVIEWS
The New York Times has a review of Adrienne Mayor's *The First Fossil Hunters* (by the way, has anyone in Canada managed to find a copy of this ... all the bookstores I go to can order it, but I don't like waiting ...)
Also at the New York Times is a review of S.H. Nuland's *The Mysteries Withing: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths* which has some interest for fans of ancient medicine:
ON THE NEWSSTANDS
Discovering Archaeology has a bunch of interesting items, ranging from "Canada's Iceman Revisited" to "Jewish Palaces of Jericho" to a piece on the Lindisfarne Gospels and assorted other things:
Egypt Revealed has an item on a couple of statues of Ramses II:
OBITUARY
Frank Norman (thanks to Sally Winchester for the heads up; mind the wrap):
WHOOPS
While waiting for technicians to admit that something was wrong with their ISP connection (which they never did, but fortunately my father has some sort of free long distance plan ... woo hoo!), I was cleaning up the 'personal' mail file and found a bunch of stuff I meant to include in Explorator but forgot (doh!):
Andy Burnham has put together a good webpage of realaudio files, which includes a 40-minute panel discussion from the recent ASLaN conference, a piece on Sounds from the Solstice (on what was going on at Stonehenge at that time), and assorted other files of interest to folks with an interest in megaliths in Britain (thanks to Andy for the heads up):
A month or so ago, the BBC had a feature on Sulpicia (thanks to Jack Kolb for the heads up):
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